S.Amdt. 627

SA 627. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 7, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2026 through 2034; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

On page 51, line 22, insert ``, except that no adjustment
shall be made pursuant to this subsection unless the Director
of the Congressional Budget Office certifies (based on the
most recent data available to the Director) that inflation,
as measured in either the average of the annualized changes
in the most recently published monthly reports on the
consumer price index for all-urban consumers published by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, or the
previous year's unadjusted annual change in that index, is
equal to or below 2 percent'' before the period.
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